38 Photos Of Very Specific Things Millennials Haven’t Thought About In Over A Decade But Will Recognize On Sight

1.Those weird and random different music countdown specials that VH1 put out in the early 2000s — like 40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs...Ever:

Screenshot from VH1
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2.And the "You Oughta Know" commercials that VH1 would play and that you actually discovered new artists with:

"You Oughta Know"
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3.The bunch of FarmVille requests you would get from your one family member that kept playing well after everyone had stopped:

"FarmVille"
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4.Designer iPod cases that sometimes cost almost as much as an iPod itself:

A Coach iPod case

5.And iPod radio transmitters that never worked and that you would have to fiddle with any time you used it:

An iPod

6.Built-in iPod docks that rich people would put into their homes along with a wired speaker system so that they could have music playing everywhere from their iPod:

An iPod on a dock
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7.Multi-disc DVD players that were another thing only rich people had and felt like the height of technology:

a multi-disk player
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8.Pre-HD TV and recording something off the TV with a VHS tape and having it look like this — but still watching it because it was only a little worse than regular TV resolution:

Frankie Muniz onstage
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9.Certs mints, which your mom or grandma would always have in their purse:

Certs mints

10.The drinking-beer app that low-key made you want to get an iPhone if you didn't have one; or, if you did have one, it was the one app you'd show off to all your friends:

Someone using their phone to drink beer on an app
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11.And the flashlight apps that you would download from the App Store because iPhones used to come without a flashlight feature:

A flashlight app
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12.The Newsstand app on iPhone that literally nobody would use:

The Newsstand app
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13.The red neon lights and signs that went all around the inside of the Suncoast Motion Picture Company stores:

A mother handing her daughter an item
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14.Abercrombie & Fitch store bags that featured shirtless guys on it:

An Abercrombie bag
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15.Comedy Central's Secret Stash which was a programming block that showed unedited movies and comedy specials late at night:

"Secret Stash"
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16.SNL's "TV Funhouse" animated skits that were always hilarious:

TV Funhouse
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17.The developed photo film section inside stores where you would look for your or your family's photos by going through them (though they were usually placed in alphabetical order):

Developed photo packages
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18.Lonelygirl15 on YouTube and people thinking it was a real vlog:

Screenshot from "Lonelygirl15"
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19.Bravo's NYC Prep, which was basically a reality show version of Gossip Girl:

The cast of "NYC Prep"
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20.Dan Levy as one of the co-hosts of The Hills: The After Show, because I guess we needed an after show to talk about the fake drama on The Hills:

Dan Levy and the cast from "The Hills"
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21.The MTV Production Development logo that was the shadows of crew members on grass and essentially played at the end of every MTV show:

MTV Production Development
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22.Those Girls Gone Wild commercials that played at midnight (usually on MTV, E!, and Comedy Central) and you were scared someone would catch you watching, even if by accident:

"Girls Gone Wild" commercial
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23.The Subway commercial that featured Peter from Family Guy:

Peter on Subway commercial
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24.Those water wheel timers that everyone had and were kinda mesmerizing to look at:

a water wheel timer

25.The beanbag toys the Disney Store released to compete with Beanie Babies:

Disney bean bag toys

26.The Nature Sounds CD display at Target that you would have fun with just pressing all the buttons and previewing the sounds:

A worker setting up a CD display
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27.Costco having an entire aisle dedicated to just DVDs:

Costco DVDs
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28.Promotional CD openers you would always forget to use when opening a brand-new CD. But if you remembered to use it, it really was a game-changer:

A CD opener
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29.The catchy-as-heck Starbucks Doubleshot Espresso "Glen" commercial, which featured the band Survivor doing a take on their "Eye of the Tiger" song:

Closeup of Glen
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30.Several 7‑Eleven's around the country being turned into Kwik-E-Marts to promote The Simpsons Movie:

A Kwik-E-Mart
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31.And being able to buy products from The Simpsons inside of them (Barbie had nothing on that movie's promo):

Krusty O's cereal
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32.Blockbuster gift cards being a default holiday or birthday gift from a family member who didn't really know you:

A Blockbuster gift card

33.Jon Stewart and The Daily Show's book, America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which parodied a school textbook:

Jon Stewart holding his book
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34.And when Madonna was pretending she was British and even wrote a kids' book called The English Roses:

Madonna with her book
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35.Refreshing your iTunes store over and over at 12:01 a.m. (EST) on Tuesdays so that you could buy and download that new album or single that you wanted:

iTunes store
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36.Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Pink as gladiators in the "We Will Rock You" Pepsi commercial:

Closeup of Beyoncé, Britney Spears, and Pink
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37.Having to put on Channel 3 if you wanted to watch a movie or play a video game:

Channel 3 static
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38.And lastly, having to manually turn off your desktop PC and having "Turn off computer" options on Windows XP that looked like this:

"Turn off computer" display